Quote Originally Posted by jAQUAN View Post
This is my favorite thing you've ever said. I've felt this way for a long time.
I suppose the reason they don't go for an HTML plug-in format is that it might lead to feature-for-feature competition with third parties.

Given their 10 year disorganized dev cycles, that's a competition they probably wouldn't win. So, instead, they continue arguing that other technologies (that have legitimate advantages) are somehow immoral.